Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
André Morell
as Col. Lambert
Carl Möhner
as Piet Van Elst
Walter Fitzgerald
as Cyril Beattie
Edward Underdown
as Major Dawes
Phil Brown
as Lt. Peter Bellamy
Barbara Shelley
as Kate Keiller
Michael Goodliffe
as Father Paul Anjou
Michael Gwynn
as Tom Shields
Ronald Radd
as Commander Yamaitsu
Marne Maitland
as Captain Sakamura
Richard Wordsworth
as Dr. Robert Keiller
Mary Merrall
as Mrs. Helen Beattie
